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 Melissia wrote:

The character creation / customization bits of the Soul Caliber series are the reason why I play it over almost any other game in the fighting genre. Indeed, in X-Com: Enemy Unknown, I modified the ratios of nationality and gender of my soldiers (it defaults to, for example, 67/33 male/female, and certain countries are under-represented) to be more even and enjoyed the game more as a result.

The only thing I care about this post (and conversation) is this. "How do I edit this?" I really only want nations that I believe would actually have people to contribute to the project in my force.

So pretty much, any NATO, Russia, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, New Zea. in my XCom force. Anyone else has no business being there in my eyes. I would love to edit it so Nigeria stops making up a 1/4 of my soldiers.

Is it really 67/33 m/f? I swear I had more females then males lol.

 Galdos wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

The character creation / customization bits of the Soul Caliber series are the reason why I play it over almost any other game in the fighting genre. Indeed, in X-Com: Enemy Unknown, I modified the ratios of nationality and gender of my soldiers (it defaults to, for example, 67/33 male/female, and certain countries are under-represented) to be more even and enjoyed the game more as a result.

The only thing I care about this post (and conversation) is this. "How do I edit this?" I really only want nations that I believe would actually have people to contribute to the project in my force.

So pretty much, any NATO, Russia, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, New Zea. in my XCom force. Anyone else has no business being there in my eyes. I would love to edit it so Nigeria stops making up a 1/4 of my soldiers.

Is it really 67/33 m/f? I swear I had more females then males lol.

It's random. The ratio isn't exactly absolutely. I think you can change the available countries in the ini files as well.

I cannot really blame the developer studio alone for the game - it's been reworked a lot and thus must have been a major pain in the wrist to go through. What I really disliked the game for is it constantly breaking any immersion - let alone failing at even creating it!

Nobody seems to be surprised that aliens landed, they are there and everyone is like "Oh, aliens. Cool.". Worse: when new aliens appear, your squad even knows their NAME, even when it's the first time appearing. And worst of all: alien weapons are just randomly lying around and you can just pick them up and instantly master using it. What the hell. Old XCom games had that right: you could pick them up, but you sucked at using them and couldn't reload. You know, because it's GODDAMN ALIEN TECHNOLOGY.

Very, very disappointed about the game, I really planned on buying it because I liked the potential the game had: experience the Xcom universe from a more personal perspective. Lots of potential that was ultimatively wasted.

Poor story, rather poor characters, no immersion, bad AI, breaking with the game's universe's lore, fluent, but repetitive combat, mediocre graphics, interesting, original scenario.

3.5/10.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Galdos wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

The character creation / customization bits of the Soul Caliber series are the reason why I play it over almost any other game in the fighting genre. Indeed, in X-Com: Enemy Unknown, I modified the ratios of nationality and gender of my soldiers (it defaults to, for example, 67/33 male/female, and certain countries are under-represented) to be more even and enjoyed the game more as a result.

The only thing I care about this post (and conversation) is this. "How do I edit this?" I really only want nations that I believe would actually have people to contribute to the project in my force.

So pretty much, any NATO, Russia, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, New Zea. in my XCom force. Anyone else has no business being there in my eyes. I would love to edit it so Nigeria stops making up a 1/4 of my soldiers.

Is it really 67/33 m/f? I swear I had more females then males lol.

It's random. The ratio isn't exactly absolutely. I think you can change the available countries in the ini files as well.

I like having it random. It's interesting having my best soldier and savior of Earth be a Saudi.

The Bureau is mostly disappointing given the inevitable comparison to Enemy Unknown. Indeed, the Bureau actually includes characterization and interpersonal plot ... but largely to no narrative effect. The setting had great potential for depth of immersion but like most things about the game it's pretty half-assed. The characters are unforgivably bland if competently voice-acted. On the bright side, the combat (i.e., 90%+ of the game) is fiercely fun. The trouble is, it needs to be more varied and supported by an actual story.

The reason this game makes me want to play Dragon Age is because it lacks what Dragon Age does well -- a compelling, detailed setting -- while doing what Dragon Age failed at twice: fun gameplay.

Spoony made a review.

He was not pleased.

Spoilered for NSFW